I used to get on one of these every morning and get on another every afternoon for a 15-20 minute flight back and forth to Meck from Kwajalein. It was like using your own HOV lane every day. It’s a DeHavilland DHC-4 Caribou which could seat up to 30 passengers on every flight. From Kwajalein
Pictures from an album given to me when I left Kwajalein in March of 1978. I went out there on an 18-month contract for $3.65/hour in 1975. When I left two years and ten months later I’d gotten up to $5.25/hour. My last eight months I worked on an island about a half-hour’s flight away. …
In light of the news that Lech Walesa plans to visit the Occupy Wall Street crowds in NYC soon, I’m reminded of a summer long distant. Back in 1980 I had gone to work for a start-up, a health, fitness and social club in Honolulu. I was the Data Processing Manager, and as such was …
From Events “I was so much younger then, I’m older than that now.” Dad and me, 1951. We all miss him.
With gratitude to and in memory of: Timberlake, Lewis G, b. 09/05/1924, d. 08/24/1993, CAPT USN, Plot: CT2 G-435, bur. 08/31/1993 Alford, James J, b. 03/16/1928, d. 12/20/1996, US Marine Corps, PFC, Plot: CT3-K300347, bur. 01/23/1997 Thanks, Dad and Uncle Jim.
I have had an old 13″ television around for years. Its picture tube had pretty much died, and yesterday it gave up the ghost entirely. I had some vague memory that TVs, like computer monitors, shouldn’t be tossed into a landfill, so I went to the city’s Department of Environmental Services website to see how …
From Pictures If only my hair were still as luxuriant! That’s me in the stands at one of three softball diamonds on Kwajalein, circa 1977, probably waiting for one game to end and my team’s game to begin. Does Michelob still put its beer in bottles like that?
One of the benefits of being a military kid was that before I was twelve years old I had been on a couple of coast-to-coast drives. When I was seventeen we embarked on the last one, leaving Northern Virginia in June and arriving in Los Angeles in July, stopping in various unheralded places on the …
Nearly 40 years ago I started playing guitar. My first purchase was a Hofner Spanish (nylon-stringed) guitar, and my second was a Rickenbacker semi-hollowbody electric. You can see pictures of the Rick here. I recognized a while back that I was not going to be invited to play in any rock and roll bands again …
Back in June I mentioned I was keeping a gallery of photos from my high school classmates as they hit the magic (or infernal, depending on your point of view) 60th birthday. This has been amazing. I’ve received 139 pictures. Granted about half of them are from the party I mentioned in that post, a …